| Summary: | Migration of evolution from Mandriva 2010.0 to Mageia 1 fails if .evolution is a symlink to another partition. | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Edward d'Auvergne <true.bugman> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | dmorganec, fundawang, marja11, remco, stormi-mageia |
| Version: | 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | evolution | CVE: | |
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Samuel Verschelde
2011-10-01 18:00:54 CEST
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stormi Is this an issue when upgrading from Mga1 to Mga2alpha1, too? CC:
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dmorganec, fundawang, marja11 cc'ing one more evolution committer. CC:
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jani.valimaa
Remco Rijnders
2012-02-29 06:46:00 CET
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remco
Jani Välimaa
2012-04-28 10:05:18 CEST
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(none) This message is a reminder that Mageia 1 is nearing its end of life. In approximately 25 days from now, Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 1. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '1'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Mageia version prior to Mageia 1's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Mageia 1 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. -- Mageia Bugsquad Mageia 1 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''1st December''. Mageia 1 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia and reopen this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. -- Mageia Bugsquad Status:
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Description of problem: The migration of evolution data from Mandriva 2010.0 to Mageia 1 fails for my setup. In my old setup, ~/.evolution was a symlink to a folder on another data partition, as the quantity of data was too great for my /home partition. However the upgrade process fails with symlinks. There is no clear way of fixing this, as the upgrade attempts to shift all of the evolution data into ~/.config and ~/.local. The problem appears as: [edward@localhost ~]$ evolution Migrating cached data mv /home/edward/.evolution/cache/http /home/edward/.cache/evolution/http FAILED: Invalid cross-device link mv /home/edward/.evolution/cache/tmp /home/edward/.cache/evolution/tmp FAILED: Invalid cross-device link rmdir /home/edward/.evolution/cache FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows) tmp http Migrating config data mv /home/edward/.evolution/calendar/views/current_view-.xml /home/edward/.config/evolution/calendar/views/current_view-.xml FAILED: Invalid cross-device link This is repeated for all config and data files. Some other messages are: mv /home/edward/.evolution/key3.db /home/edward/.local/share/evolution/key3.db FAILED: Invalid cross-device link As not many people will have the .evolution folder on a different partition as /home, this will not affect many people. For those affected though, it appears as if all data is lost from the program. And many error messages are given. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Move an old copy of .evolution to a different partition. 2. Make a symlink to the moved folder. 3. Run evolution from the prompt.